Books : Aglaia: The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna (Greek Studies : Interdisciplinary Approaches)
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by: Charles Segal
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 881.0109
EAN: 9780847686179
ISBN: 0847686175
Label: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: December 28, 1998
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Sales Rank: 2168491
Studio: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Product Description:
In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then studies the literary form and language of early Greek lyric, the poets' conception of their aims and their art, the use of mythical paradigms, and the relation of the poems to their social context. A recurrent theme is the recognition of the fragility and brevity of mortal happiness and the consciousness of how the immortality conferred by poetry resists the ever-threatening presence of death and oblivion, fixing in permanent form the passing moments of joy and beauty. This is an essential book for students and scholars of ancient Greek poetry.
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